Cardinal

Pricing

One price. Unlimited units, booking engine included.

$189 a month runs your property: every screen, every user, as many units as you have, and your own booking page taking direct reservations. Run activities alongside the rooms and it is $36 more.

  • $189 a month, CAD
  • Founding properties: 50% off year one
  • $0 per room, $0 per user
PMSAccommodation or activities
$189per month, CAD

The complete system for an operator running one kind of operation. What the second plan adds is activities.

  • Reservation book, folio and the day's work
  • Hosted direct booking page
  • Housekeeping and cleaning forecast
  • Canadian tax, all 13 provinces
  • The full accounting ledger and reporting
PMS + ActivitiesAccommodation and activities
+$36a month on top of PMS

$225 a month all in, CAD

The same complete system, with rooms and activities running against one guest database and one ledger.

  • The whole PMS plan, and then activities
  • Rooms and activities in one reservation
  • One folio across both, one tax treatment
  • Activity scheduling, capacity and staffing
  • A lodge with cabins and a campground is one business here

Founding properties

Your property. Your PMS. Half price for the first year.

10 founding spots in Quebec and 10 in Ontario. Founding properties pay half price for their first year, then keep 25% off every year for as long as they stay.

  • Made for independent hotels, campgrounds and B&Bs
  • Canadian tax, French and English, built in
  • A direct line to the team building Cardinal
First yearEvery year after
PMS$189$94.50$141.75
Activities add-on+$36+$18+$27

a month, CAD

Book a demo

Founding spots are confirmed on the call.

Elsewhere in Canada? Leave your name and we'll call you about a founding spot in your province.

Card processing through Cardinal Payments carries a 0.5% platform fee on top of Stripe's processing rate. It applies only to cards you run through us: your own terminal, cash, cheque and Interac e-transfer are not ours to charge for.

What is in it

Everything the system holds

The screen names are the product's own, so you can open the demo and find them in the same order. Every screen below comes with both plans. The two tagged ones are what the second plan adds.

  • Control Deck

    The day, and what to do next

    • Today's arrivals, departures and stays in house
    • The next action on each one, with the reason it is next
    • Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and revenue for today, read live off the board
    • Routines that appear when they are due and expire when they are not
  • Guest Rooms

    Calendar · list

    • Lodging reservations, taken at the desk or arriving from your booking page
    • The board: every unit, every night, on one screen
    • The same reservations as a list you can sort, filter and search
    • The folio: charges, payments, taxes and the balance
    • Group bookings, and one folio split between several payers
  • Activities

    PMS + Activities

    Calendar · list

    • Activity reservations, sold on their own or onto a stay
    • The activity board, and the same day as a list
    • The day view, session by session, with who is on each one
  • Shop

    Products · daily charges

    • Sell to a stay or to a walk-in
    • The day's charges, each posted to the right folio
  • Housekeeping

    Cleaning + staff forecast

    • Today's clean list, unit by unit, with what changed overnight
    • The staffing forecast, in cleaning minutes rather than in rooms
    • Out of order, and a unit that comes back from maintenance dirty
  • Analytics & Database

    KPIs · forecast · ledger · insights

    • The append-only ledger, and the four tax reports off it
    • Insights that open the filtered screen they are about
    • The guest database, searchable across both kinds of booking
    • Your data out, self-serve, whenever you want it

Sales Configuration

  • Rooms & Rates

    Types · units · pricing

    • Divisions, room types and the units inside them
    • One base nightly rate, and a price on a single unit if you want one
    • Rate plans for seasons, length of stay and corporate rates
    • The quick rate increase, across every type at once
  • Activity Programming

    PMS + Activities

    Models · capacity · pricing

    • Three scheduling models: inventory, slots and hours
    • Capacity, staffing and what each session costs
  • Shop Configuration

    Products · packages · add-ons

    • Products, priced by the unit that fits them
    • Packages, on four pricing bases
    • Add-ons a guest can put on a booking themselves
  • Channels & Bookings

    OTAs · booking widget

    • Your own booking page, hosted, in French and English
    • The same booking widget embedded on your own website
    • Calendar sync with the booking sites, two ways
    • Channel settings, commission and how the money arrives

In both plans, from day one

13
Provinces and territories, taxed correctly
FR + EN
Guest page and staff screens
Canada
Where your guest data lives
Updates
Every one included, as it ships

Included, at every size

Five lines that stay at zero

These hold for as long as you are a customer.

$0Per room, site or unit
Most systems bill by unit count. Here, adding a cabin costs nothing in software.
0%Commission on direct bookings
The bookings you earn yourself stay yours, in full.
$0Per person at the desk
One price for the property, however many people use it, summer students included.
$0Setup, onboarding and switching
Switching is included: we bring your guests and reservations across with you, on a call, with your real rooms and rates.
$0To leave, with everything
Guests, reservations and the full ledger as CSV, plus a JSON backup and every closed month. Self-serve, whenever you want it.
Eight rooms or eighty, all five are the same number.

See it first

Watch a working day, start to finish.

Arrivals, the folio, housekeeping and the last invoice, on the real screens. It is easier to price something you have already seen running.